Showing posts with label Ear of Rice and Japanese Proverb. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ear of Rice and Japanese Proverb. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Ear of Rice and Japanese Proverb;

*Rice grow ripe in Autumn*
         The boughs that bear most hang lowest.
        実るほど頭を垂れる稲穂かな  
                         minoruhodo koubeo tareru inahokana
This proverb must have derived from Japanese rice eating culture.
The interpretation I have found from pc.  "As berries ripen drooping ears, humans also deepens learning and virtue, humility."   I think it is a reference to modesty and humility being virtue, and the virtue applies to those who are the most unassuming, the least pretentious.  I still have a lot to learn :-)
♣ pictures taken last week 
 pictures from former posts to show you rice-paddy before ripen 


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